Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-01
BILL NYE CORRECTs AN ERROR.

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purely personal matter, I would like to
make an explanation at this time which
concerns me, of course, more than any one
else, and yet it ought to be made in the
interests of general justice also. | refer to
a recent article published in a western
paper and handsomely illustrated, in
which, among others, l find a picture OF
my residence.
The description which accompanies the
cut, among other things, goes on to state
as follows: "The structure is elaborate,
massive and beautiful. 1tconsists of three
stories, basement and attic, and covers a
large area on the ground. 1t contains an
elevator, electric bells, steam heating ar
rangements, baths, hot and cold, in every
room, electric lights, laundry, fire escapes,
etc. The grounds consist of at least five
acres, overlooking the river for several
miles up and down, with fine boating
and a private fish pond of two acres in ex-
tent, containing every known variety OF
game fish. The grounds are finely laid out
in handsome drives and walks, and when
finished the establishment will be one OF
the most complete and beautiful in the
northwest"
No one realizes more fully than l the
great power of the press for good or evil.
Rightly used the newspaper can make or
unmake men, and wrongly used it can be
even more sinister. I might say, know
ing this as I do, 1 want to be placed right
before. the people. The above is not a cor
rect description of my house for several
reasons. In the first place, it is larger and
more robust in appearance, and IN the
second place it has not the same tout en-
semble as my residence. MY house is less
obtrusive and less arrogant in its demean-
or than the one described and it has no
elevator in it.
My house is not the kind that seems to
crave an elevator. An elevator in my
house would lose money. There is no pop
ular clamor for one, and if! were to put
one in l would have to abolish the dining
room. It would also Interfere with the
parlor.
l have learned recently that the CORES
pondent who came here to write up this
matter visited the town while | was in
the South, and as he could not find .me he
was at the mercy of strangers. A young
man who lives here and who is just in the
heyday of life gleefully consented to show
the correspondent my new residence not
yet completed. So they went over and
examined the new Oliver Wendell Holmes
hospital, which will be completed in June,
and which is of course a handsome struc-
ture, but quite different from my house
in many particulars.
For instance, my residence is of a differ
ent school of architecture, being rather on
the Scandinavian order, while the fore
going has q tendency toward the Ionic.
The hospital belongs to q very recent
school, as l may say, while my residence,
in itsarchitectural methodsan conception,
goes back to the time of the mound build
ers, a time when a Gothic hole IN the
ground was considered the magnum bo-
mum and the scrumptuous thing IN art.
If the reader will 60 around beh!nd the
above building and notice it carefully on
the east side, he will not discover a dried
coon skin nailed to the rear breadths of the
wood-shed. That alone ought to convince
an observing man that the house is not
mine. The coon skin regardant will al
ways be found emblaZoned on my arms,
together with a blue Goddess of Liberty
and my name in green India ink.
The front part of my house runs back to
the time of Polypus the First, while the
L u n back as far as the cistern.
In closing, let me say that l am not find
ing fault with any one because the above
has crept into the public prints, for it is
really a %pardonable error, afterall. Meth
err do l wish to be considered as striving to
eliminate my name from the columns of
the press, for no one could be more tickled
thar I am over a friendly notice of my
arrival in town or o timely reference to my
courteous bearing and youthful appear
ance, but l want to see the Oliver Wendell
Holmes hospital succeed, and so l come
out in this way over my w signature
and admit that the building does not be-
long to me, and that, so far as l am con,
cerned, the man who files a lien on 1T Will
simply fritter away his time.-BW Nye IN
NeW York World.
THEN AND Now.-Says the Augusta
Chronicle: We have repeatedly urged that
one of the greatest wants of the South IS
more and cheaper money. OF money for
investmentthere is a superabundance East